The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Rock Song Chart
for the Year of 2023
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Psychos | Jenny Lewis |
| 2 | When We Disappear (feat. Tim Bluhm & Greg Loiacono) | The Mother Hips |
| 3 | All I Really Wanna Do | Devon Gilfillian |
| 4 | Act Natural | Margaret Glaspy |
| 5 | Lose You (feat. Soccer Mommy) | Bully |
| 6 | Talk to Me | The Record Company |
| 7 | Weird Goodbyes (feat. Bon Iver) | The National |
| 8 | Days Move Slow | Bully |
| 9 | Chaise Longue | Wet Leg |
| 10 | Lay Low | Blk Odyssy |
| 11 | Damage Gets Done | Hozier |
| 12 | Echolalia | Yves Tumor |
| 13 | Sunset Blues | The Mother Hips |
| 14 | The Narcissist | Blur |
| 15 | What Now | Brittany Howard |
| 16 | Bug Like an Angel | Mitski |
| 17 | Borrow Trouble | Feist |
| 18 | Wicked Mind | Mike Campbell & Dirty Knobs |
| 19 | Kiss Ur Face Forever | Orla Gartland |
| 20 | NYE | Local Natives |
| 21 | Wild | Spoon |
| 22 | Feels Alright | Spoon |
| 23 | Miami | Caroline Rose |
| 24 | Godhead | Garbage |
| 25 | High Horse (feat. KT Tunstall & Peaches) | Deap Vally |
| 26 | Gaslighter | Skinner |
| 27 | Here to Forever | Death Cab for Cutie |
| 28 | It's Alive! | Ratboys |
| 29 | Really Really Light | The New Pornographers |
| 30 | Supernatural Thing | M. Ward |
| 31 | Queen of the City | Ripe |
| 32 | The Men Who Rule the World | Garbage |
| 33 | Rose Pink Cadillac | Dope Lemon |
| 34 | Love is Love | Grace Potter |
| 35 | Leaving the Light | Genesis Owusu |
| 36 | High Horse | Deap Vally |
| 37 | Dummy | Portugal. The Man |
| 38 | Magic Eyes | Night Glitter |
| 39 | Repeater | DAIISTAR |
| 40 | Joiner | Blondshell |
| 41 | Cowboy Nudes | Geese |
| 42 | Blue over Blue | The Clientele |
| 43 | Silence is Golden | The Beths |
| 44 | Walking at a Downtown Pace | Parquet Courts |
| 45 | Konami | Pearl & The Oysters |
| 46 | I'm Still | Bahamas |
| 47 | Fever Pitch | Rainbow Kitten Surprise |
| 48 | Charmer and the Snake | The Velveteers |
| 49 | Motel #27 | The Velveteers |
| 50 | Hypnotic | Dead Sara |
| 51 | The Slow Drag Under | Benjamin Booker |
| 52 | The Juice | G. Love & Special Sauce |
| 53 | Tracemaker | DAIISTAR |
| 54 | Muriel’s Big Day off | Being Dead |
| 55 | Some Things | Tommy Prine |
| 56 | Nurse! | bar italia |
| 57 | Not Strong Enough | Boygenius |
| 58 | America Burning | Shinedown |
| 59 | Meshuggah | Unknown Mortal Orchestra |
| 60 | Literary Mind | Sprints |
| 61 | Up and Comer | Sprints |
| 62 | The Trench Coat Museum | Yard Act |
| 63 | Smog | Indigo De Souza |
| 64 | Wings of Time | Tame Impala |
| 65 | Punk | Girl Ultra |
| 66 | Dust | Allah-Las |
| 67 | Fallout | Yo La Tengo |
| 68 | Untouchable | Matthew Logan Vasquez |
| 69 | Highlands | Middle Kids |
| 70 | $20 | Boygenius |
| 71 | Prizefighter | Youth Lagoon |
| 72 | Sunshine | The Black Moods |
| 73 | Eat Your Young | Hozier |
| 74 | Hotline | bby |
| 75 | Truth is Heavy | Benjamin Booker |
| 76 | Hands Up | Dead Sara |
| 77 | Good Day for a Good Day | Michael Franti & Spearhead |
| 78 | Queen | Perfume Genius |
| 79 | Noise in the Forest | Ripe |
| 80 | Jesus Freak Lighter | Blood Orange |
| 81 | Barley | Water From Your Eyes |
| 82 | Hard to Go | Never |
| 83 | Moving on | Explosions In The Sky |
| 84 | Sentence I | Font |
| 85 | Boyhood | The Japanese House |
| 86 | Crumble (feat. Rosanne Cash) | The National |
| 87 | Brighter Day | Michael Franti & Spearhead |
| 88 | Dance on Mondays | The Record Company |
| 89 | Black Lipstick | Chicano Batman |
| 90 | Mankind - TWKFA | Night Glitter |
| 91 | The Way We Get by | Spoon |
| 92 | Hide | Rainbow Kitten Surprise |
| 93 | Tropic Morning News | The National |
| 94 | Skin in the Game | Slowdive |
| 95 | How I Love | King Tuff |
| 96 | California Sun | je'Texas |
| 97 | As the Father, So the Son | Skateland |
| 98 | Soft Like a Flower | Cherry Glazerr |
| 99 | Grand Junction | The Hold Steady |
| 100 | Cariño | The Marías |
| 101 | Impressively Average | Brigitte Calls Me Baby |
| 102 | American Cockroach | Deap Vally |
| 103 | Waking Up in Los Angeles | Fruit Bats |
| 104 | Fractals | Beth Orton |
| 105 | Bella Donna | The Black Moods |
| 106 | Break My Baby | Kaleo |
| 107 | Stunner | Thee Oh Sees |
| 108 | Taking Me Back | Jack White |
| 109 | Evening Star Supercharger | Sparklehorse |
| 110 | All My Friends | The Revivalists |
| 111 | No Caffeine | Marika Hackman |
| 112 | Skinny | Kaleo |
| 113 | Hello, Hi | Ty Segall |
| 114 | Two 6's Upside Down | Dropkick Murphys |
| 115 | If I Were a Butterfly | Rayland Baxter |
| 116 | A Tip from You to Me | Jack White |
| 117 | Cramps | Slow Pulp |
| 118 | Yard | Slow Pulp |
| 119 | Dancer | IDLES |
| 120 | Street Sermon | Daddy Long Legs |
| 121 | New Beginning | Automatic |
| 122 | I Don't Want You Anymore | Cherry Glazerr |
| 123 | Brigitte Bardot | Mike Campbell & Dirty Knobs |
| 124 | Independence Day | Palehound |
| 125 | Sinatra Drive Breakdown | Yo La Tengo |
| 126 | Crashing Again | Tommy Prine |
| 127 | Looking at Long Days | The Mother Hips |
| 128 | Stubborn Love | The Lumineers |
| 129 | Maestro (Tears Don't Lie) | Wilder Woods |
| 130 | Roll with It | The Record Company |
| 131 | Fast Car | Tracy Chapman |
| 132 | Younger & Dumber | Indigo De Souza |
| 133 | Waiting for the Worms | Pink Floyd |
| 134 | Talkin' Bout a Revolution | Tracy Chapman |
| 135 | Pleasure | Haiku Hands |
| 136 | Orinoco Flow | Olivia Jean |
| 137 | All of This Will End | Indigo De Souza |
| 138 | Tippa My Tongue | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| 139 | Boyhood | Tommy Prine |
| 140 | I Love You, Always | Tommy Prine |
| 141 | This Far South | Tommy Prine |
| 142 | Gondii | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard |
| 143 | I Ain’t Quite Where I Think I Am | Arctic Monkeys |
| 144 | Fire | Waxahatchee |
| 145 | Daddy's Gone | Sparklehorse |
| 146 | Tough Love | Beach Fossils |
| 147 | Electro - Motive Blues | Daddy Long Legs |
| 148 | All I Do | Bully |
| 149 | Lab Grown Liver | Tom Faia |
| 150 | Don't Let Me Down | Milky Chance |
| 151 | The Alcott (With Taylor Swift) | The National |
| 152 | Wet Dream | Wet Leg |
| 153 | End of the Line | Civic |
| 154 | Pontius Pilate's Home Movies | The New Pornographers |
| 155 | The Doldrums | Caroline Rose |
| 156 | Nice Work if You Can Get It | SLOAN |
| 157 | Do or Die | Ani DiFranco |
| 158 | Hey Now Now | Michael Franti & Spearhead |
| 159 | Head in the Clouds | The Beths |
| 160 | Cracker Island (feat. Thundercat) | Gorillaz |
| 161 | Talking Jukebox | Dropkick Murphys |
| 162 | Souvenir of My Trip | Mudhoney |
| 163 | Cash Carter Hill | Tommy Prine |
| 164 | Stuck in Love | Tom Faia |
| 165 | Cheater's Nightmare | Tom Faia |
| 166 | Born to Love You | Tom Faia |
| 167 | Good Morning Little School Girl | Tom Faia |
| 168 | Bad Boy | Tom Faia |
| 169 | 3D Country | Geese |
| 170 | Ms. America | Bully |
| 171 | (No) Commitment | Nick Waterhouse |
| 172 | The Devil & Mister Jones | Spoon |
| 173 | Can You Turn Me Up | Matthew Logan Vasquez |
| 174 | Trouble | Olivia Jean |
| 175 | Ditch | Olivia Jean |
| 176 | Raving Ghost | Olivia Jean |
| 177 | The Summer of Hate | The Dandy Warhols |
| 178 | Tighten Up | The Black Keys |
| 179 | Expert in a Dying Field | The Beths |
| 180 | Burning | Yeah Yeah Yeahs |
| 181 | Pound Sand | Blair Gun |
| 182 | Rockin' My Boogie | Daddy Long Legs |
| 183 | Queen of Ears | Quasi |
| 184 | Gold on the Ceiling | The Black Keys |
| 185 | Hard Way | Flock Of Dimes |
| 186 | Christopher Robbins | Paul Jacobs |
| 187 | If It Happens | We Were Promised Jetpacks |
| 188 | Changes, Pts. 1 & 2 (Instrumental) | Neal Francis |
| 189 | Once Upon a Poolside (feat. Sufjan Stevens) | The National |
| 190 | Any Time of Day | The Lemon Twigs |
| 191 | Saint Ex | Widespread Panic |
| 192 | Knees Deep | The Beths |
| 193 | Murder at the 18th St. Garage | The Mountain Goats |
| 194 | Driver's Story | Dry Cleaning |
| 195 | Blacktop | Yeah Yeah Yeahs |
| 196 | Stand by My Girl | Dan Auerbach |
| 197 | Cherrybomb | Dan Auerbach |
| 198 | Bikini | Caroline Rose |
| 199 | 2 U's | Rare Americans |
| 200 | Milk & Honey | Rare Americans |
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